SQL DBA II

🔥 1 minute ago

🐊 Florida – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Versant Media

1001 - 5000 employees

📱 Media

👥 B2C

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 IPO on 2026-01

Media • B2C

Versant is a media company that owns, operates and licenses a portfolio of television and digital brands and channels, bringing well-known properties (including USA Network, SYFY, Oxygen, CNBC, E! , Rotten Tomatoes, Fandango and multiple golf- and sports-related brands) to streaming platforms such as Prime Video, The Roku Channel and Hulu. The company develops and licenses original programming, manages channel launches and strategic partnerships, and emphasizes audience growth, brand expansion and cross-platform distribution. Versant presents itself as a corporate media group focused on informing, entertaining and inspiring consumer audiences while growing its FAST (free ad-supported streaming TV) portfolio.

📋 Description

• Own the health and reliability of SQL Server environments across Production, Staging, and Development, including SQL Server hosted on AWS RDS • Maintain database availability in accordance with established SLAs, SLOs, RTOs, and RPOs • Support and administer MySQL and PostgreSQL platforms across cloud and on-premises environments • Monitor and optimize database performance and capacity using execution plans, Query Store, wait statistics, Extended Events, indexing analysis, observability platforms, and diagnostic tools • Administer access and permissions using least-privilege practices • Design, implement, test, and validate backup, restore, high-availability, and disaster-recovery strategies • Partner with Software Development, Data Engineering, QA, Infrastructure, and other technology teams throughout the development lifecycle • Improve T-SQL, query and schema design, indexing, CI/CD workflows, automated deployments, data migrations, integrations, and post-deployment validation • Automate repeatable database operations using infrastructure-as-code, PowerShell, and other scripting technologies • Enhance monitoring, alerting, dashboards, incident response, root-cause analysis, and technical documentation • Troubleshoot complex production issues, identify and mitigate operational risks, and continuously improve database engineering practices

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on SQL Server transactional database administration experience, including production database environments • Strong SQL Server administration expertise across configuration, security, permissions, maintenance, backups, restores, troubleshooting, and operational support • Strong experience with AWS database and infrastructure services, particularly RDS, Secrets Manager, S3, CloudWatch, and related technologies • Advanced SQL Server performance analysis and optimization capabilities, including execution plans, Query Store, index design, wait statistics, blocking analysis, query tuning, Extended Events, and related diagnostic technologies • Strong knowledge of SQL Server concurrency and transaction behavior, including isolation levels, locking, blocking, and deadlocks • Experience designing and supporting high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions, including Always On Availability Groups, backup and restore strategies, and RTO/RPO planning • Strong proficiency in T-SQL and PowerShell, with experience using automation to improve database administration and operational workflows • Working knowledge of MySQL and PostgreSQL administration, including configuration, monitoring, security, backup and restore, and troubleshooting in production environments • Experience with source control and database CI/CD practices using Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, or equivalent technologies • Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, or equivalent • Ability to independently troubleshoot complex production database issues, perform root-cause analysis, manage assigned work, communicate risks and blockers, and escalate appropriately • An associate’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, a related field, or equivalent professional experience • Must be based in Florida

🏖️ Benefits

• Employees can work remotely • Primarily remote work with in-person collaboration, team meetings, or company events approximately 10% of the time • Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off

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